Marlene Mountain
Marlene Mountain | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 11, 1939 |
| Died | March 15, 2018 (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma (BFA) University of North Dakota (MA) |
| Spouse |
John Wills
(m. 1966; div. 1978) |
| Children | 1 |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Poetry |
Marlene Mountain (née Morelock; December 11, 1939 – March 15, 2018), also known as Marlene Morelock Wills, was an American poet, artist, and activist.[1] She wrote many English-language haiku and concrete poems.
From 2014 to 2015, she served as the 18th honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento.[2]
Femku Magazine has an annual haiku contest named after Mountain since 2018.[3]
Biography
Mountain was born in Ada, Oklahoma. She attended East Central State College for two years before transferring to the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a BFA in painting in 1962. She was a member of the Delta Phi Delta art honorary society.[4] She later earned an MA in painting from the University of North Dakota.[5]
Mountain married John Wills in 1966. Following his career moves, they lived together in Wilmington, North Carolina and Statesboro, Georgia, before moving to a farm in east Tennessee in 1971.[6]
She began writing haiku in 1968.[7] She self-published her first chapbook of poetry, the old tin roof, in 1976. Her essay "One Image Haiku" was first published in 1978.
She co-edited the "Other Rens" series of linked verse books (2000–2002) with poets Kris Kondo and Francine Porad.
Writing
She wrote several one-line haiku and was also known for writing visual haiku (short poems that had visual effects like that of concrete poetry), which she referred to as "dadaku" or "unaloud haiku" and are sometimes also called "eye-ku".
Personal life
Mountain married John Wills, another haiku poet, in Duluth, Minnesota in 1966.[6] They had one son together in 1967 and divorced in 1978.
Bibliography
- the old tin roof, 1976, self-published[8]
- Pissed off poems; and Cross words, 1986
- cur*rent (with Francine Porad), Vandina Press, 1998
- probably: 'real' renga sorta (with Francine Porad), Vandina Press, 2002
- one-line twos (with Kala Ramesh), Bones, 2015[9]
See also
References
- ↑ "The Living Haiku Anthology - Mountain, Marlene". livinghaikuanthology.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ↑ "American Haiku Archives Honorary Curator Marlene Mountain". www.americanhaikuarchives.org. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ↑ "Contest". #FemkuMag: Home. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ↑ "Nathan Bettenhausen on Marlene Mountain". www.brooksbookshaiku.com. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- ↑ Mountain, Marlene. "mm info/background". www.marlenemountain.org. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- 1 2 "John Wills – Haikupedia". Haikupedia. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- ↑ "The Living Haiku Anthology - Evolving Consciousness (by Marlene Mountain)". livinghaikuanthology.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ↑ Mountain, Marlene (1976). "The Old Tin Roof". Marlene Mountain. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ↑ Mountain, Marlene; Ramesh, Kala (2015). "One-line Twos". Bones--journal for contemporary haiku. Retrieved 16 July 2020.